VIRGIN STEELE - Age Of Consent Edición Deluxe Digipak
Reedición de este álbum de esta banda de Heavy y Power Metal comparados hasta la saciedad con Manowar. Sin llegar a la popularidad de aquéllos, para muchos sin embargo son superiores. Y sin ganas de entrar en polémicas de quiénes son mejores o peores, para mí sí que sin embargo son poseedores de una carrera mucho más coherente, sin tantos altibajos a nivel de calidad y manteniendo el nivel compositivo en sus últimos discos e incluso yendo cada vez a más.
Publicado originalmente en 1988, sin llegar al nivel de sus posteriores álbumes conceptuales, ya apuntan maneras. En esta reedición de 2011 se han incluído multitud de temas extras, tomas descartadas, demos y versiones, entre las que destacan un par de los Priest. Además la portada es distinta a la publicada originalmente.
Reseña de RateYourMusic: Es dificil decir algo malo sobre este disco y para nombrar todo lo bueno voy a tardar mucho tiempo por eso solo diré que cuando escuchas este disco es como si fuera de los noventa, no de los ochenta. VIRGIN STEELE iban muy por delante musicalmente hablando a los demas grupos de heavy metal. Una pena que no llegaron nunca a la fama, algo que hubieron merecido sin lugar a duda. Un discazo al nivel del anterior NOBLE SAVAGE y que simplemente imprecidible tener en tu coleccion si te llaman metalero. En un mundo perfecto temazos como THE BURNING OF ROME, el rapido LET IT ROAR, LION IN WINTER, ON THE WINGS OF THE NIGHT etc...etc...deberian sonar en la radio a diario desde que fue publicado el disco hasta hoy en dia pero al no haber justicia en este mundo logicamente no es el caso, pero ya se sabe que no la hay y solamente un par de elegidos seguiremos disfrutando con estas canciones. Totalmente infravalorado este discazo y este grupazo. Nada más que añadir. p.d: La reedicion tiene 6 bonus tracks muy chulas como el temazo PERFECT MANSIONS por ejemplo aunque creo que hubiera sido mejor si en el cd primero hubieran puesto las 10 canciones del disco original y luego las 6 bonus tracks en vez de mezclarlo todo.
Temas:
Disc One (Original) 1 The Burning of Rome (Cry for Pompeii) 6:39 2 Let It Roar 3:48 3 Prelude to Evening 1:10 4 Lion in Winter 5:32 5 Stranger at the Gate [bonus track] 1:30 6 Perfect Mansions (Mountains of the Sun) [bonus track] 8:33 7 Coils of the Serpent [bonus track] 1:24 8 Serpent's Kiss [bonus track] 8:15 9 On the Wings of the Night 4:41 10 Seventeen 4:21 11 Tragedy 4:22 12 Stay on Top 3:37 13 Chains of Fire 3:35 14 Desert Plains [bonus track] 4:52 15 Cry Forever 4:32 16 We Are Eternal 4:13
Disc Two: Under The Graveyard Moon 1 Screaming for Vengeance [bonus track] 5:11 2 The Curse [bonus track] 2:57 3 Breach of Lease [bonus track] 5:58 4 Another Nail in the Cross [bonus track] 6:24 5 A Changling Dawn ("Noble Savage" Acoustic Version) [bonus track] 10:56 6 Under the Graveyard Moon [bonus track] 6:53 7 Down by the River [bonus track] 5:43
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2011 reissue of this album originally published in 1988. This edition comes with a bonus CD with a lot of outtakes, demos and covers like a couple of Judas Priest's songs.
Metal-Archives review: "Age Of Consent" is the quintessential Virgin Steele album. Most fans of the band will eagerly name "The Marriage Of Heaven and Hell" saga, "Invictus" and "The House Of Atreus" as their finest works but we all share a warm fondness for "Age Of Consent". It speaks a language we understand-it is the sound of the band naked and free in their skin and where others would look away self conscious, we don't. We share in the revels because we know this is the core of Virgin Steele.
The Empire of Steele as I like to refer to it, rests solely on the five magnificent heavy metal masterpieces that came after the “Life Among The Ruins” album. But at the foundation of that empire is “Age Of Consent”. This album embodies all the aspects of Virgin Steele; the epic, the light hearted, the aggressive, the romantic, the noble and the absurd. If ever a band was to be too multi dimensional and overly segmented, they usually strove to make a record that captured them at all angles. One that told the complete story, so to speak. For Led Zeppelin, Virgin Steele’s principal heroes, it was “Physical Graffiti”-a culmination of all they had been feeding on; a final coming together of all the elements that had made them such a thrill. As anyone will objectively attest, the Zep was never as memorable in the years that followed that record. Luckily for Virgin Steele, it is quite the reverse. “Age Of Consent” bared the band’s soul but didn’t really dig in deep. In retrospect, it can be viewed as a mere sampling of the different faces the band would fully show on records thereafter.
The most important songs on the album are firstly “The Burning of Rome (Cry For Pompeii) which is Virgin Steele’s original grand affair. It is hailed to this day as one of their greatest songs and its tasteful melding of basic guitar riffery with complexly melodic key work has since been mirrored in many a song of Steele. “Perfect Mansions (Mountains of The Sun)” remains one of the band’s more emotive and moving pieces. David DeFeis’ vocal performance is full of heart and such a force of transcendent beauty. I listen to it and think; “That’s the way a Power metal ballad ought to be delivered!” They shot a promotional video for that song and I think that was a particularly excellent choice. “Lion In Winter” offers a more earthy grit and natural aggression than any of the songs on “Invictus” exhibit. In a way it is the mother of all and any such Virgin Steele songs but with a bit more delicacy and nobility. DeFeis sings the line; “Anger is the symphony of screams” like he is stating a primary fact of life. Not in forced rage or petty “brutalness” but with an observance that is rather godly. “Cry Forever” is the pinnacle of Virgin Steele’s endless romantic strolls. It perfectly evokes the childish sweetness and adult anguish of those who offer and suffer for love. Like Robert Plant, David Coverdale, Ronnie James Dio, Steve Perry and Freddie Mercury before him, David DeFeis delivers it expertly. Emoting with only the right quantity of feeling and never going over the top with it.
They all go over the top though eventually. After all, this is the Steele Exhibition warts and all. Edward Pursino does with a wild unrepentant rocker’s solo that saves the rather dull but thunderingly epic “Serpent’s Kiss”. His equally delicious lead playing on the Uriah Heep cover, “Stay On Top” however, fails to redeem it in any way. It is the sort of ridiculous thing that seems to be a requisite for every Virgin Steele album. Just as absurd but all the more endearing for it is the song “Seventeen” which explores in more chuckalicios detail the jailbait themes momentarily explored on “On The Wings Of The Night” and responsible for the title “Age Of Consent”. Virgin Steele tackle the fun of illegal sex with the same gay abandon that Venom and Slayer displayed when shoving Satan down the throats of the moral majority.
Of the newer songs released on the 2011 reissue, “Under The Graveyard Moon” with its Gothic nuances is the most promising while the cover of “Screaming For Vengeance” is sorely disappointing or righteously riotous depending on your mood for the day.
For any Virgin Steele fan, “Age Of Consent” is a triumph worth savoring over and over again. The band was in conflict at the time of its making and release and it would be five years until the next one. The fact, therefore, that they came out swinging deserves celebrating. And look no further for a party record…
joder .....es alucinante .....son igual los temas......solo puedo decir que a mi me gustan mas virgin steele , pero claro, esque a los manowarris tampoco les tengo mucho afecto, y lo mismo , eso influye.... lo que esta claro a tu pregunta , esque las dos banda tomaban muchas proteínas ( de donde viene el huevo y la gallina )
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